Build unsaved Message from email.message.Message using public API (for unit testing of dependent code)

[stevecj]

It would be nice if there was a sanctioned way to build an unsaved Message model instance from an email.message.Message object via the public API of django-mailbox. Using a function of a services module, perhaps?

The purpose of this would be for faster testing of code that deals with Message instances in the form that they would be constructed from particular raw messages.

[ad-m]

I understand your need. At that moment there is no way for that (Pull requests are welcome). See

django-mailbox/django_mailbox/tests/test_message_flattening.py

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	incoming_email_object = self._get_email_object(
	'message_with_many_multiparts.eml',
	)
	# Note: this is identical to the above, but it appears that
	# while reading-in an e-mail message, we do alter it slightly
	expected_email_object = self._get_email_object(
	'message_with_many_multiparts.eml',
	)
	models.TEXT_STORED_MIMETYPES = ['text/plain']
	msg = self.mailbox.process_incoming_message(incoming_email_object)
	actual_email_object = msg.get_email_object()
	self.assertEqual(
	actual_email_object,
	expected_email_object,
	)

how to tests mail messages parsing (so far).

[pfouque]

I guess factoryboy is what you're looking for.
Tests execution time is not a topic at the moment, but feel free to build a pull request